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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good points you have, Kerusey. Some of you in here have used EDA much
longer than I, so your opinion is valuable to me.

I would like to avoid the "variable" rule in your suggestion, so what do
you think about this ?

1. 100mil for symbols without pin numbers. Ex: diodes, capacitors, resistors
2. 150mil for everything needing pin numbers.

Regards,

Carl


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Kerusey Karyu <keruseykaryu@xxxxx> wrote:

> In 23.03.2014 20:57, Carl Poirier wrote:
>
> > Symbols:
> >
> > 1. Default 300mil pin length is used.
> >
> Why? Why? Why? I need only one *reasonable* reason.
>
> Please. Take a look at current symbols with 300mil pin length. Have you
> see the awfulness of it?
>
>
> The pin length could be:
> 1. 100mil for discrete devices: diodes, capacitors, resistors; because
> they usually doesn't have any pin numbers (or pin names).
>
> 2. 150mil for IC's designed as "black-box"; because 150mil is enough even
> for pin numbers greater than "99" or BGA pin numbering encoded by pair of
> characters and digits.
>
> 3. Variable for IC's symbols with various shapes, for ex. triangle in
> op-amp or power amplifiers.
>
>
> Kerusey Karyu
>
>
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